Bad News: Tabula Rasa Dead, NCSoft Shrinking

I'm very worried for City of Heroes upon hearing this news.  The good news is the CoX staff has been increasing, not decreasing, and revenues for the game are up even in the face of the second-lowest subscription rate in the game's history (probably due to micro-transactions; there's the upside of micros right there).

I'm always saddened at the news of the closing of an MMO, but Tabula Rasa was always a very questionable game.  MMO players don't want a first person shooter, and first person shooter players don't want an MMO.  They are different audiences and games like Planetside and now Tabula Rasa are proving that it's just a bad idea generally to mix the two.  Will SOE's The Agency turn that trend on its head?  It's free to play, so it just might.  Don't be shocked if it doesn't, though.

Read the article at Kotaku.

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